Monday, December 22, 2008

Boston's Holocaust Memorial

The memorial is composed of 7 (I think) tall glass columns which you can walk through...
The path has quotes & detail along the edges & stone slabs with many horrifying snippits of info about the history of the Holocaust.
In the glass on the columns, in a small font was etched the tatoo numbers of all of the victims...
Way too many...
Looking up inside one of them...
The quote reads, "When the last mass grave was opened, I recognized my whole family, my mother, my sisters and their kids. They were all in there..."
The pattern in the glass behind are the victims' tatoo numbers.
This quote reads, "Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend."
Quotes from Holocaust survivors.
A great memorial of a horrific history.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

And finally...Rockport, MA

An artist & photographer's town...filled with neat old shops, storefronts and galleries.
Gates with personality...
Charming residences...
All...begging to be photographed and explored...
Wouldn't you just want to skip up these stairs?
And a private walkway with a glimpse of the harbour...
And it wouldn't be a harbour without boats...
A side window view on one of the shops...
A colourful array of floaters...
More of the shops...
Shops & Galleries... More boats...
Check out this old lantern on the building on the left and the flowers...
Some of the residences...
Mmmmmm - the Fudgery...
And more floats & buoys...
At the point looking back towards one side of town...
I loved the stone wall, fence & flowers along this building.
Helmut's Struedel shop...the smells coming out of this place were divine!
Isn't this the most adorable garden & shed?
Another charming residence...
I got distracted from the shops and went wandering down on the docks...
It was so peaceful...
I met one friendly old fisherman with a huge smile and few teeth...
Literally the edge of town @ low tide...
Gooseberry Junction - the most charming store with the nicest lady & her dog!
And even with daisies...
A gallery...
And another...
And last but not least...more red vines on a stone wall.

Gloucester, MA...

Fishermen's Wives Memorial...
Many of the tiles surrounding the memorial are carved with names of victims...
Fishermen's Memorial...
Rows & rows of name of men lost at sea...
Along the coastal look-out...
And if you need a closer look

Hammond Castle...

A great castle built in the early 1900's in the style of the old medieval castles...
This one is now a museum which they were setting up for Halloween, so we just checked out the grounds.
Creepy...
In the back garden...
A window that looked out to the ocean...
Isn't this beautiful?
The view along the coast...
In the garden...
Chilly Mr Bumblebe sittin' on a daisy...
The nasty stairs that picked a fight with Kari & won!